NEW DELHI: Authorities should take accountability for each stage of a mission, the highway transport ministry stated in its ‘Tips for Prevention and Mitigation of Highway Tunnel Collapses’ issued on Thursday, amid a pattern of freeway authorities discovering simple escape for such mishaps by passing the blame on contractors and consultants.As per the rules, the mission in-charge should attend weekly danger administration conferences with key mission stakeholders. “The chance register shall stay a stay doc, repeatedly up to date to make sure prime dangers are mentioned and mitigation measures are carried out. Every recognized danger shall have a delegated particular person answerable for mitigation,” the doc stated.Specifying that authorities involved will need to have possession, the rules stated employed companies corresponding to DPR consultants, contractors and authority engineers or impartial engineers are distinct entities with particular and time-bound roles. “Authorities should guarantee optimum efficiency from these entities to realize mission targets,” it stated.To make sure security and structural integrity of tunnel tasks, the ministry stated on the time of alignment survey, geological maps and nationwide landslide susceptibility mapping printed by the Geological Survey of India (GSI) should be consulted. It stated all vital facets of the contract — milestones, scheduling, provisions for variations, risk-sharing mechanisms and power majeure, should be addressed unambiguously.Highlighting that current evidences counsel that many tunnel DPRs lack the mandatory technical depth, decreasing them to procedural formalities reasonably than efficient danger administration instruments, the ministry stated the mission in-charge of the authority shall be answerable for ascertaining the correctness of the geological and geotechnical investigation performed as a part of the DPR.